Investor Slang
A market where prices are rising.
What is a bull market?
Private credit and private equity are part of this investment category.
What are Alternative Investments?
A film about Jordan Belfort’s rise and fall as a stockbroker.
What is The Wolf of Wall Street?
Groundfloor Lending can close loans in as little as this many days.
What is in as little as 7 days?
Investor known as the “Oracle of Omaha.”
Who is Warren Buffett?
A market where prices are falling.
What is a bear market?
Assets pledged to secure a loan.
What is Collateral?
A drama about a wealthy family controlling a global media empire.
What is Succession?
Groundfloor Lending finances this strategy of buying, renovating, and reselling a home.
What is fix and flip?
Longtime CEO of JPMorgan Chase.
Who is Jamie Dimon?
Slang for buying an asset after its price drops.
What is Buy the Dip?
Pooling loans together and selling them as securities.
What is Securitization?
A 2015 film about investors betting against the housing market.
What is The Big Short?
The acronym for a property's value after renovations.
What is ARV (After Repair Value)?
Founder of Standard Oil; a famous New York City center bears his name.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This investing acronym encourages researching investments yourself.
What is DYOR (Do Your Own Research)?
The extra yield investors demand above U.S. Treasuries for credit risk.
What is a Credit Spread?
A Showtime series about hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod.
What is Billions?
The acronym measuring a loan vs. property value.
What is LTV (Loan-to-Value)?
Investor portrayed by Christian Bale in The Big Short.
Who is Michael Burry?
Crypto slang for holding an investment despite volatility.
What is HODL (Hold On for Dear Life)?
The order in which lenders are repaid after a default.
What is the Capital Stack?
An HBO drama about analysts at a London investment bank.
What is Industry?
Groundfloor Lending holds this lender position, first in line after default.
What is a first lien?
Nicknamed “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England” after shorting the pound in 1992.
Who is George Soros?